Trachelostenini Explained

Trachelostenini is a tribe of darkling beetles in the family Tenebrionidae. There are at least three genera in Trachelostenini. It was historically ranked as the family Trachelostenidae,^[1] but a 2015 study sunk the family into the tenebrionid (darkling beetle) subfamily Tenebrioninae.^[2]

Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Trachelostenini:

• Leaus Matthews & Lawrence, 1992 (Australasia)
• Myrmecodema Gebien, 1943 (the Neotropics)
• Trachelostenus Solier, 1851 (the Neotropics)

Further reading

• Book: Classification of the Coleoptera of North America. 1861. LeConte . J. L.. Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 3. 136. 978-0665100550. 10.5962/bhl.title.38459.
• Book: American Beetles, Volume II: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. 2002. Somerby . Ronald E.. Thomas . Donald B.. Triplehorn . Charles A.. Arnett . Ross H. Jr.. Thomas . Michael C.. Skelley . Paul E.. Frank . J. Howard. CRC Press. Family 106: Tenebrionidae. 463–509. 978-0-8493-0954-0.

Notes and References

1. Lawrence, John F. and Ślipinśki, Adam. "11.13. Trachelostenidae Lacordaire, 1859". Volume 2 Morphology and Systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim), edited by Willy Kükenthal, Richard A.B. Leschen, Rolf G. Beutel and John F. Lawrence, Berlin, New York: De Gruyter, 2011, pp. 571-574.
2. Matthews . Eric G. . Lawrence . John F. . 2015-09-22 . Trachelostenini sensu novo: redescriptions of Trachelostenus Solier, Myrmecodema Gebien and Leaus Matthews & Lawrence, based on adults and larvae, and descriptions of three new species of Leaus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) . Zootaxa . 4020 . 2 . 289 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4020.2.4 . 1175-5334.